Same problem. Booted Knoppix from a CD. Ran great. Said screw RH and installed Knoppix.
Hate to be so bubbly about knoppix, but in four instances of X/video problem it has worked when others do not. Don't know enough about X to know why. Joe England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 06/27/2003 04:23:27 PM To: central texas linus users group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Phillip Watts/austin/Nlynx) Subject: [ctl-linux] window manager issues Hi, I installed RH8 on a box using a VIA EPIA-M Mini-ITX Mainboard. When I booted the system I got an error message to the effect that the board was newer than the version of XFree86 in the Red Hat 8.0 distribution. Next I went to the XFree86.org site got the newest version (4.3.0), installed it and ran xf86config. Now, I get a proper-looking gray background and some text rendered on a broken looking terminal window, while the little wristwatch twiddle never goes away and the console doesn't accept input. In other, I think that XFree86 is running OK but that I have some window manager issue. Also, if I type startx in the alternate shell I get the following: Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages. Please report problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key giving up xinit: unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. ls -l /tmp/.X0-lock shows that the lock file was last written at about boot time as expected. Does anyone have advice? Joe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website at <http://www.ctlug.org>. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86